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In this talk, Professor Sasaki discusses uneven development between the city and the countryside during this period as one manifestation of these contradictions and examines how it was imagined and contested in cultural representations.\r\n \r\n Tomoyuki Sasaki is a professor of Japanese studies at the College of William & Mary. He is also an affiliate of the Center for Japanese Studies at U-M. He specializes in Japanese history and cultural studies. He is the author of *Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society* (Bloomsbury, 2015) and *Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth* (SUNY Press, 2022).\r\n \r\n *This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*\r\n\r\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. 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He was a member of the Slave Trade Arts Memorial Project in Lancaster from 2000-2007, co-curated Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery at the Whitworth Gallery in 2007 and has been involved in a variety of documentaries and dramas with the BBC and other arts and media companies including being consultant to Studio Canal for their 2022 release The Railway Children Return. In 2021 he curated the exhibition Lubaina Himid: Memorial to Zong and in 2023 co-curated Facing the Past: Black Lancastrians. Working with local Black History groups he has rolled out his Lancaster Slave Trade Tour and organised commemorations, supported by the Embassy of the United States, for the Battle of Bamber Bridge where African American soldiers in WW2 fought Jim Crow racism on British shores. 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